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This post is the last in a series from the International Telecommunication Union’s (ITU) 2014 Plenipotentiary Conference in Busan, South Korea. Rea...
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Minimum Wage On Election Day, five states voted to raise the minimum wage. Josh Barro reported in the New York Times’ Upshot Blog, “Alaska [will] s...
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But Money Matters More Than Ever
After Republicans won the most expensive midterm election in history, it was tempting to ascribe the result to money, or more specifically “dark mo...
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| November 06, 2014
Yascha Mounk
We didn’t know what to expect after the heady days of November 1989. What exactly would follow from the fall of the Berlin wall? Would this mean th...
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| November 06, 2014
Brandon Tensley
Twenty-five years after the fall of the Berlin Wall, a different wall has taken its place. But instead of separating East and West, this other “wal...
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| November 06, 2014
Kenneth W. Mack
If you want to know who to blame for any number of global and domestic crises, there is one simple answer, according to many critics: Barack Obama....
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| November 06, 2014
Last week, New America's Open Technology Institute released the 2014 edition of the Cost of Connectivity, an annual survey of broadband speeds and ...
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| November 06, 2014
This pill came with a promise: help extinguish sexism from public life by removing a key roadblock for women. If women could plan when and whether ...
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| November 06, 2014
New America
Idealistic television shows like The West Wing portray government as a place for grand ideas and big think. But the reality is that working in gove...
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| November 06, 2014
Grace Hale
In the years after the song appeared as the title track on Springsteen’s 1984 album, Bruce Springsteen’s “Born in the USA” has been overanalyzed an...
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| November 06, 2014
Martin Eiermann
In 2014, twenty-five years after the fall of the Berlin Wall tore open the Iron Curtain, less visible fault lines remain between East and West in G...
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For people around the world planning or building wireless networks, the cost and accessibility of the equipment can often be a challenge. There are...
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Today at 9 AM in Washington DC, the Open Technology Institute’s Policy Director Kevin Bankston will be testifying at a hearing before the Judicial ...
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New America
On October 24, 2014, New America Research Fellow Tim Maurer addressed delegates at the United Nations (UN), delivering a speech on cybersecurity at...
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Recapping Last Week’s Negotiations and Looking Ahead to the Final Week of the ITU Plenipot
Week 2 of the ITU’s 2014 Plenipotentiary Conference (the “plenipot”) has come and gone after a marathon of negotiations on critical Internet-relate...
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Millennials New America authored a six-part series on the status of Millennials in the wake of the Great Recession that was published by Vox.com th...
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| October 30, 2014
If you're between 18 and 34 years old, you _should _be getting ready for the prime of your life — at least according to recent history. That means ...
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| October 30, 2014
New America
Is the duty of the documentary to “change the world” or rather to “show the world”? Increasingly, activists and consumers conflate documentary with...
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| October 30, 2014
It is the year 2015. Since a final agreement on Iran's nuclear program was reached some months ago, there have been a few minor missteps on Tehran'...
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| October 30, 2014
Steven C. Call
Poor Barack Obama. With his many problems sending his approval ratings to record lows, the one thing it seemed he could take solace in was that he’...
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| October 30, 2014
Ari Ratner
“Scarlett, Scarlett!” I waved pleadingly. Across the red carpet she sauntered, her eyes invitingly meeting mine. There I stood—a 24-year-old Jewish...
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| October 30, 2014
When disaster strikes, we tend to think big. What will the city do to help the affected population? The federal government? But in fact, many of th...